Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/MastersBot

The following discussion is an archived debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. The result of the discussion was

Approved.

MastersBot[edit]

Operator: — master son^{T - C}

Automatic or Manually Assisted: Automatic

Programming Language(s): AWB

Function Summary: Tag U.S. Roads Redirect Talk pages with the {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} banner (with appropriate parameters based on the page's parent) in order to organize them for the wikiproject (state name will change based on what state the route is in)

Edit period(s) (e.g. Continuous, daily, one time run): one-time run, until all pages are tagged

Edit rate requested: 7 edits per Minute

Already has a bot flag (Y/N): N

Function Details: Tag U.S. Roads Redirect Talk pages with {{U.S. Roads WikiProject}} (with appropriate parameters based on the page's parent) in order to organize them for the wikiproject (state name will change based on what state the route is in) a typical page will

have a talk page that does not exist (in the unlikely event that the talk page does exist - the tag will be added manually by me, not the bot - the AWB "Skip Existing Pages" will be checked), and
be in a list such as Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wisconsin_Highways/Completion_list (this is the first list that the bot will operate off of. The first article in the list is the original article, the last is a disambiguation page for all routes of that number. These two sets of pages will not be touched. everything else in between is a redirect. The redirect lists that the bot will operate on are listed here

The typical page will be created with

{{U.S. Roads WikiProject|state=WI|class=Redirect|has-map=NA}}

(the parameter will be different based on the state the route's page falls under)

Discussion[edit]

That edit count is a bit high.. Consider bringing it down to 7-8? — E ^talk 23:51, 25 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done, I doubt it would reach 7 anyway — master son^{T - C} 01:35, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update - forgot to change the value above (had an edit conflict) - just did now :Z — master son^{T - C} 03:22, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is not usual to add talk page templates to redirects talk pages. Is there consensus for this? Should you add a redirect=yes parameter to the template? -- maelgwn - talk 01:10, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This is how Wikipedia:USRD/A operates. If you dig around the assessment system, this is how things are set up already. --Rschen7754 (T C) 01:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Answering your inquiry in two parts:

That depends on the WikiProject, there's no universal policy per WP:ASSESS, but several wikiprojects use it. we use it to organize them in Wikipedia:USRD as per Rschen7754's comment
I don't understand the "redirect=yes" parameter and haven't seen it before in a talk tag

— master son^{T - C} 01:35, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ok that is fine then. I was suggesting you could add that parameter to the template but don't worry because it is normal for you to tag talk pages of redirects. (Oops if i read above you are already using class=redirect)-- maelgwn - talk 02:18, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

not a problem, thank you — master son^{T - C} 03:19, 26 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved for trial (35 edits). Please provide a link to the relevant contributions and/or diffs when the trial is complete. -- maelgwn - talk 08:51, 27 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ran 30 edits with it - see contribs. Forgot to put the state param in for the first few but otherwise like clockwork (AWB didn't permit the automatic operation yet so I manually assisted it) let me know if any concerns. — master son^{T - C} 01:29, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Approved. -- maelgwn - talk 02:24, 29 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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